Latest iteration of Taubman College Faculty Reading Room.

‘denCity is a Masters level research project by Sahra (Peter Sovinc, Saif Almasri, Suryansh Chandra) at the Design Research Lab, Architectural Association, London. denCity is a critique of modern day urbanization and city planning methodologies that are based on 20-year masterplans of linear city growth and are incapable of dealing with the pace of change […]

Recently the University of Michigan Taubman School of Architecture set forth a design competition to re-imagine the current faculty library and research space. Set within a confined space with three light sources, a parametric model was created which divided the space based on programmatic content and divided it further horizontally to create planar surfaces for […]

Radiolarian inspired design from Shiro-Studio using d-Shapes full-scale rapid prototyping technology.

Two projects of particular interest by Ariel Schwartz and Mike Chino. Archimorph began researching similar topics, using Bacillus pasteurii, also known as the cementer bug in 2007 as a ‘natural 3d printing device’ which would create habitable structures out of sand. Seed bombing technologies have also been of interest since early 2009 in the attempt […]

programmatic + massing study for huron river watershed council main base of operations. – JB

Huron Synergy. As the boundaries of our ever expanding megalopoleis blur the lines which defines perimeter, landscapes of complex ecologies disappear before our eyes, pushing the boundary further into itself doomed for collapse. Detroit Michigan is in an economic crisis, and as its inhabitants leave the city at an alarming rate, the constructed perimeter begins […]

Comprised of a range of 12-tetrahedral modules, each module aggregated onto the surface of the pavillion has the ability to scale itself to one half of its origional size through a system of struts and actuators. At the midpoint of the vertices, the struts collapse and are able to scale towards the centerpoint at which […]

Performing multiple roles within the watershed the main goal of this project aims at cleansing the Huron River, upon which a discourse will be built between the natural ecosystem and the people who inhabit it [the watershed]. Dual functions will result from the architectural structure system; an exploration of transferring information and data into architectural […]